Five of family get 10-year jail for dowry death

Five members of a family were convicted for dowry death on Monday by additional district and sessions judge SK Singh and sentenced for ten years of rigorous imprisonment.

TNN | Jun 11, 2013, 05.00 AM IST

KANPUR: Five members of a family were convicted for dowry death on Monday by additional district and sessions judge SK Singh and sentenced for ten years of rigorous imprisonment. They are Rajesh Srivastava (husband), his parents Lalta Prasad Srivastava and Nirmala Devi, sister Pinki and brother Rohit Srivastava, residents of site number 2 in Kidwainagar locality.

Rajesh Srivastava got married to Anjana, a resident of Tajnagar locality in Naubasta on November 26, 2007. Rajesh and his family members put a demand of of Rs 1 lakh as dowry within a month after the marriage. Alok Kumar Srivastava, an elder sibling of Anjana had requested her in-laws that his family was unable to pay the money and they be granted some time to arrange the money.

But Rajesh and his family members killed Anjana within two months of marriage by administering poison and claimed that she had committed suicide. The autopsy report revealed face had acid burn marks and viscera report confirmed that sulphuric acid was administered.

In another case, additional district and sessions judge Jai Mangal Sharma, on Monday, convicted one Jogi for making an attempt to rape a minor girl and punished him with seven years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5,000.

Jogi, a resident of Nehrua village in Chakeri, had enticed a ten-year-old daughter of his neighbour on June 3, 2011 to his house. Before he could rape her, the girl's mother reached there and raised an alarm. Villagers caught and handed him over to the police.

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